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Dynamic Pricing: To Adjust Rates or Not to Adjust Rates

We just had an excellent and lively discussion at the Data and Revenue Management (DARM) conference hosted by VRM Intel last week about what...

Repurposing Space: Broadening Your Vacation Rental’s Appeal

Work From Home Fatigue As shelter orders persist across the country, many have started to experience fatigue associated with working from home. Similar to the...

Booking.com Affirms Commitment to Quality with Minimum Cleanliness Score Requirement

For the last two years, Booking.com has been working steadily to ensure the quality of short-term and vacation rentals listed on its platform with...

New Customers Bring New Demands: Evolving to Meet the Needs of New Customer Avatars

As vacation rental providers are experiencing firsthand, consumer behavior in the travel sector has changed dramatically in 2020. In a recent interview, Google’s head of...

Forecasting the Winter Season: Forces at Play in a Pandemic Economy

7 Key Drivers of Destination Travel Scenarios How can destination resorts plan and prepare for the upcoming Winter 2020/2021 season when there are so many...

Customers Behaving Badly: The Psychology of Changes in Guest Behavior

After the flood of COVID-19 cancellations abated, property managers felt a renewed sense of hope as guests began to rebook vacation rentals destination by...

Women Need to Raise Their Voices . . . Just A Thought

What is your story? What do you do? Who do you do it for? And how do you do it uniquely? These questions and more...
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A Room-by-Room Guide to Being Extra-Ordinary: Now may be the perfect time for vacation rentals to be a little “extra”

photo credit: Stay In Tamarindo Vacation Rentals, Photos by TruPlace “She’s so extra!” Now that we’ve all been exposed to Netflix-driven multigenerational dramas, you’ve likely heard...

Vacation Rental Women Professional Development Series: Growing as a Thought Leader with Author and Speaker Amber Hurdle

VRM Intel and the Vacation Rental Women's Summit are presenting a supplemental professional development series in partnership with author and speaker Amber Hurdle titled,...

360 Blue Acquired by Natural Retreats

Today Natural Retreats announced its acquisition of Florida-based 360 Blue, doubling its inventory to 1,500 vacation home rentals across 17 destinations. Founded in Santa Rosa...

Carolina Retreats Continues to Grow with Second Inn Purchase on NC Coast

Based in Surf City, North Carolina, Carolina Retreats recently announced its acquisition of the Island Resort and Inn located on Oak Island, along with a...

Dealers and Dreamers: Get Your Reservations Team Ready for Calls from Deal-Seeking, Vacation Daydreamers

What a crazy couple of months it has been for our vacation rental reservations sales staff, who were on the very frontlines of the...

Q&A with Breezeway founder Jeremy Gall about company’s $8 million funding round and more

Earlier this week, Breezeway announced that the company has raised an additional $8 million in funding led by Schooner Capital, along with Tamarisc Ventures,...

Gatlinburg-based Cabins For YOU acquires Chalet Village and is looking for more. Q&A with owner and founder Greg Plimpton

Last month, Gatlinburg-based Cabins For YOU closed on its cash purchase of Chalet Village for an undisclosed sum. With the acquisition of Chalet Village’s...
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Scenario Planning: Determine Your Game Plan Using Scenario-Based Forecasting

Determining Your Coronavirus Game Plan As states and nations start reopening their economies, the business world looks a lot different than any of us could...

Three VRM Fundamentals That Haven’t Changed: Diversification, Relationships, and Branding

As we come out on the other side of this pandemic and prepare for relaunch, it is important to recognize that there were already...

5 tips to make guests “feel” good when walking in the door for the first time

1) Provide clear directions to the property at their fingertips. First, provide guests with easy-to-follow directions via both text and email. Don’t bury directions in...

Dear Vacation Rental Industry: Letters from Vacation Rental Industry Executives

In the vacation rental industry, facing crises is something we do well, from fires and earthquakes to hurricanes and oil spills. However, the seismic...

The New Normal: Adapting to a Changed Reality

As the professional community begins to work its way through the COVID-19 curve and the associated rolling economic calamity induced by the virus, we...

Practicing Conflict Transformation

A couple of summers ago I was reading a book called The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel. I found it interesting that when...

VacationRentPayment/Yapstone’s New Policy Delays Payments to Vacation Rental Managers by 30 days

VacationRentPayment, a Yapstone payment processing facilitator widely used by vacation rental managers and homeowners, is notifying its property management (PM) customers that it will...
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What is the cost of Airbnb’s recommended 24- to 72-hour “buffer” time between stays?

Across the vacation rental industry, companies, associations, governments, and destination marketing organizations are proactively assessing new standards and augmented cleaning protocols to ensure guest...

The Professional Vacation Rental Manager’s Crisis Playbook

An emerging piece of any professional rental manager’s value proposition is the professional organization’s ability to operate in an environment with a high degree...

10-year anniversary of the BP-Deep Horizon Oil Spill brings comparisons to COVID-19

As the vacation rental industry faces challenges related to the spread of COVID-19, managers on the Gulf Coast are remembering another unanticipated, debilitating event...

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